{"id":894253,"date":"2026-09-13T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894253\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:36:11","slug":"irish-open-final-round-shane-lowry-leads-as-he-chases-first-win-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894253\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Open final round: Shane Lowry leads as he chases first win in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Not the week I wanted&#8217; &#8211; McIlroypublished at 13:50 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:50 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">McIlroy -1 (67)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b8597d5d-ec25-4cb8-af07-62886d789a09.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, any lingering hope Rory McIlroy had of back-to-back Irish Open titles were dashed during a messy 74 yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he says he&#8217;s seen enough in his game this week to feel good before teeing it up at Wentworth next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yeah, obviously wasn&#8217;t the week that I wanted but at the same time, I don&#8217;t feel too far away, and I feel good about going into Wentworth next week,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought I hit the ball pretty well for the most part. A couple of bad decisions off the tees yesterday, but overall, iron play was a lot better. That&#8217;s getting there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wedge play was pretty good for the most part this week. Obviously it was a struggle on the greens. That was the difficult thing and why I wasn&#8217;t able to get myself into contention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A little bit of time on the putting green the next couple days and get familiar with the greens at Wentworth again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not the week I wanted&#8217; &#8211; McIlroypublished at 13:50 BST 13:50 BST McIlroy -1 (67) Image source, Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-894253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}